Corner brace or support for plastering



(No Model.)

L. GOODWIN. CORNER BRAGB 0R SUPPORT FOR PLASTERING.

No. 595,299. Patented Dec. 14, 1897.

Uwrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEIVIS GOODXVIN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORNER BRACE OR SUPPORT FOR PLASTERING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,299, dated December 14, 1897. Application filed May 22,1896. Renewed August 5,1897- fierial No. 647,244. (No model.) i

To aZZ whmn it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEwIs GOODWIN, of

Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corner Braces or Supports for Plastering, which will, in connection with the accompanying drawings, be hereinafter fully described, and specifically defined in the appended claims.

In said drawings, Figure 1 shows my improved corner brace or support as when applied to support the corner-plastering of two intersecting walls, forming a reentrant angle, and as secured to the studding of the wall and extended outward therefrom through the lathing and having its outer angle-arms or branches embedded in the plastering. Fig. 2 is a similar view, but showing the metallic support as secured to the outer face of the lathing and extended into the body of the plastering. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of a section of the metallic corner piece or strip as bent or folded into form for practical use. Fig. at is like Fig. 3, except a slight change in form.

The object of my invention is to furnish, as illustrated in said drawings, a light metallic support for the plastering of rooms at the corners or reentering angles of their intersecting walls, which, when properly se cured to the lathin g or studding and embedded in the wall-plaster, will hold the latter firmly in place and maintain an unbroken surface against any tendency to crack or separate at the rentrant corners from shrinkage of the woodwork; and the invention consists in a support or brace A, composed of a thin piece or strip of flexible sheet metal, bent into the form shown, with broad wings B B at right angles to each other, which are, when in practical use, attached at proper intervals, by nails or screws through their outer edges, to the woodwork behind the plastering, and with a folded straight arm 0, extending outward from said woodwork midway between said wings and terminating in a right-angled fold, the branches D D of which are parallel with wings B B.

In the practical application of this cornerpiece, which is especially designed for reentrant angles or corners, as illustrated in Fig' 1, the wings B B are shown as attached to the studding E E by means of screws F F, said wings extending between the lathing G G and the studding, while the folded central arm O reaches outward through the lathing, and its angular termination is embedded in the body of the plastering H, the greater portion of which in the corner is clenched by the branches D D, and thereby held from drawing away from the woodwork or separating at the junction of the two wall-surfaces.

In the practical application of the folded strip or piece of metal, as illustrated in Fig. 2, the win gs are similarly attached, but have their bearing against the outer face of the lathing instead of between the latter and the studding, as in Fig. 1, and the attachingscrews extend through both the wing and lathing. The parts embedded in the plastering are substantially the same in the two figures.

In certain classes of plastering one of the wings of the brace may be omitted for convenience in using the invention without essentially departing therefrom, leaving it as shown in Fig. at.

I claim- 1. A metallic corner support or brace, composed of a strip orpiece of thin, flexible metal, bent and folded into form to adapt it to support the plastering of reentrant angles or corners and comprising wings B B; arm O; and branches D D, arranged substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

2. A metallic corner-support, composed of a strip of flexible metal, bent and folded into form so as to comprise an attaching-wing B: an arm 0: and branches D D: all arranged and adapted to support the plastering of reentrant angles or corners, substantially as shown and described.

LEYVIS GOODWIN.

IVitnesses:

EUGENE HUMPHREY, T. W. PORTER. 

